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Bhopal: Polling began Friday morning for assembly elections in Madhya Pradesh, where 2,533 candidates, including Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan and his predecessor Kamal Nath are in the fray for 230 assembly seats, in a largely straight contest between the ruling BJP and the opposition Congress...
Polling is being held from 7 am to 6 pm in all the assembly segments except in Baihar, Lanjhi and Paraswada seats in Balaghat district, 55 booths in Mandla districts Bichhiya and Mandla seats and 40 polling stations of Dindori district, all Naxalite affected, where voting time is 7 am to 3 pm, an official said...
The single-phase voting covering all the 230 assembly seats 47 of them reserved for Scheduled Tribes and 35 for Scheduled Castes has more than 5.6 crore registered electors, the official said.. Mock poll was conducted in the presence of authorized polling agents 90 minutes before the actual start of voting, the official said.. Voting is underway in 64,626 polling stations set up in the state..
The number of critical voting stations is 17,032, while 5,260 booths have all-women polling staff, the official said.. Booths which recorded very high turnout or witnessed any sort of violence during previous elections are designated as critical polling stations...
The electioneering saw Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Home Minister Amit Shah, BJP president JP Nadda, Union minister Rajnath Singh and Chouhan, among others, addressing rallies to drum up support for the saffron party nominees...
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